"On Friday, the State Board of Elections released the results of an extensive, objective audit of the 2016 election. It found that 4,769,640 votes were cast in November and that one (1) would probably have been avoided with a voter ID law. One out of nearly 4.8 million.

I just want to say to the chucklefucks who think "it's simple to get an ID, it's no infringement at all" can go fuck themselves.

I can't even get a replacement license without jumping through hoops, spending time on the phone, taking time off of work, driving to different agencies, and having to request documentation from multiple governmental agencies.

I'm lucky that I have the means and resources to do all of this. If I was a poor person out in the country? Good fucking luck. It's not that simple you shitbrained mongrels.

Check the alleged voter fraud numbers for the same election. I had this debate at work a while ago, and the NC board of elections reported in 2012 that roughly 1 in a million votes was ALLEGED (not proven) to be fraudulent. Neither side of this argument has any real numerical backing.

^^^If you were a poor person out in the country, you could go to your local DMV and get it handled in about an hour; provided you had the proper documentation, a list of which is available online. We poor, country folks don't have to wait in line all day, standing outside with a bunch of 40 year old assholes sharing Xbox Gamertags so they can play Call of Duty together later, just to see someone at the DMV.

Or you could just order a duplicate online. Bing, bam, boom. No troubles, no wait, no time off, just some clicks and $13. Easy as pie.

Just because you live in the big city, doesn't mean everything is better there. Nor does it mean that you are more resourceful or intelligent.You stupid chucklefuck.

"Marion County Prosecutor Terry Curry said State Police found no evidence of voter fraud or voter suppression and that the charges against the workers arose from "a very bad, ill-advised business practice" of setting canvassers what appears to be a daily quota."

On the plus side all comments, in email and regular mail are available to view and they are glorious. Basically 30,000 comments calling them assholes and cunts. On the down side, they apparently didn't even engage in modest curation so all home emails, addresses and phone numbers are listed.

So the right firmly believes the left commits voter fraud to win (wait, don't they usually lose?) elections.

The left firmly believes the right passes laws to remove the ability for minorities and left-leaning individuals to vote.

Seems to me the easiest thing here is to call the right's bluff - pass laws requiring voter ID and then have the government issue an ID to every single person who is alive with a social security number.

That way, the right is happy everyone has an ID and the left is happy that now everyone can vote.

I bet the same exact numbers end up being tallied after votes are cast...

Apparently the absentee ones do. A normal In-person ballot I think is more complicated? I’m seeing people say conflicting things. I thought ballots had barcodes, which could me matched to boter rolls (ie they scan your name and the ballot when you are getting your ballot on election day I thought.)

"“They have just an unprecedented number of that,” he said, “which is something that continues to concern us, especially if everybody uses and exercises their right to vote — which they absolutely can — and mail those ballots in, we gotta have heavy turnout to offset that.”"

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"The comments are particularly alarming because Kemp was already facing scrutiny over perceived attempts to suppress voters. As Rolling Stone pointed out, Kemp suspended more than 53,000 voter applications (70 percent of them filed by black people) because they violated a state “exact match” standard. That standard can dispel someone from Georgia’s voting records if a word is misspelled, or their address is incorrect, or even if a hyphen is misplaced, according to Rolling Stone.

Kemp also oversaw the purging of 107,000 voters from Georgia in 2017, largely because they hadn’t voted in several years, according to American Public Media."

"Cindy Hyde-Smith on voter suppression: "And then they remind me, that there's a lot of liberal folks in those other schools who that maybe we don't want to vote. Maybe we want to make it just a little more difficult. And I think that's a great idea." Nov 2nd in Columbus, MS. https://t.co/OxNY77XCft"

^^You consider doctors working class folks? But I get your point. You can't even have Thanksgiving off if you work at Kohls. The pay has to be mandated. But it would be a scheduling nightmare if people have to wait in line for hours. It's not like these retailers, fire and police forces would just close for voting day.